 Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine : And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know,...  The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine - Page 71edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | H. R. Schermerhorn - 1871 - 124 pages
...mother when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities,...— With banquet-song and dance, and wine, — And ilion art terrible ! — The tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream,... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1871 - 468 pages
...mothor's wLeu she feds For rfte first time her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine,— Aud thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That cluse t her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. —...scattered van of England wheels ; — She only said, arid warm, With banquet song and dance and wine, — And tliou art terrible ; the tear, TliK groan,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...its stroke : Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake's shock, the ocean-storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet-song, and... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 752 pages
...Death I Come to the mother's, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath (xxi. 336. 21). Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake...storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine ; — And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1900 - 88 pages
...mother's, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...storm! Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine! And thou art terrible! — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | 1901 - 634 pages
...mother, when she I't-clt, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake's shock, the ocean-storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...mother's, when she (eels, For the first time, her first-born's breath: Come when the blessed seals That hers bore; And there perhaps some seed is sown The...Heracleidan blood might own. Trust not for freedom to j The earthquake-shock, the ocean-storai ; Come when the heart beats higL and warm, With banquet-song,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...mother's, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath I Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...storm ! Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine I And thou art terrible ! — the tear, The groan, the knell, the... | |
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